Water Safe to Drink?

We all need to drink water
everyday, for it is vital to our health and necessary to live.If you would like to know if the water
you're consuming is safe there are a variety of ways to protect yourself from
toxins in water.Why drink bad
water when you do not have to.Protect yourself and your children with the following steps.

The first thing to do is to
get a municipal water report.It
is easily found by calling up city council for it or going on the website.By law it is supposed to be readily
available by law. You can get a CCR (Consumer Confidence Report) also which can
be sent in the mail.There are a
certain number of things we should be looking for on the water report.

1.) Make sure you know how
much lead is in the water your drinking.The water report will tell you the average, the limitations, and it
tells you the sources of the water.If you're getting stuff sent to your home, and
comes through a lot of tubes, it may still pick up some junk along the way so
that is why it is good to know the source.

2.) Check the nitrate and
nitrite levels.It can come from
sewer runoffs, runoff from fertilizers, or erosion of pipes.Again we need to check the product, how
much is tolerable and source. Your body is able to tolerate a little bit but
don't consume too much.

3.) E coli is something
nobody wants to see in water.E
coli comes from either animal or human feces.That is nothing that you would want to ingest.

4.) There should be no
arsenic, cyanide, and mercury.

So now we know what is in
our water and if it is high quality or not.But is that enough?No, there are a variety of ways to fix the problem because chances are
complaining to the city mayor is not going to get much done in most cases.So what can we do?

Lets take it one step past
the municipal water report.If you
are getting water from a well or alternative way you need to figure out if your
water is good.

You can purchase a
Watersafe Drinking Water Test.What
you do is take out the vials full of powder, add water and wait 48 hours. If
the color turns purple its good.If the color is yellow, you have bacteria in your water.This is very easy and very simple.But can we take it one step further to
protect our family from bacteria in our water?Yes we can.

To live as vital as you can
you should use a water filter.It
has a carbon filter which absorbs a lot of the chemicals.If you don't want to put water in a
water pitcher all day that filters (Brita) water, then put a filter on top of
the sink.They are screw on and
cost about fifty bucks. There is no need to higher a plumber. You can also
split the pipes underneath to use one faucet primarily for washing dishes and
another one to just filter out your drinking water.

We also need to recognize
that you can't bathe in water unless we know the water is clean.Chloroform, chlorine, and other
bacteria in water enter our pores and our body soaks it in.This happens especially in hot showers
because the hotter the shower, the more our pores open up.

Shower systems are sold
just like water filters on sinks that can screw on and cleanse through a carbon
filter.If you can't afford a
shower filter then don't put mister on high so you don't inhale all of the
chemicals.Also don't put the
shower on extremely hot so your body's pores do not absorb the toxic chemicals
so easily.

These are just a couple of
precautionary measures you can take to protect you and your family from toxic
water.